Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1931
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Credit: Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b) If less than one hour is allowed for meals, shall end at half-past eleven o’clock in the forenoon, as regards employment in any manufacturing process (c), and at noon, as regards employ- ment for any purpose whatever ; (4) Where the period of employment on Saturday begins at seven o’clock in the morning, that period shall end at half-past twelve o’clock in the afternoon as regards any manufacturing process (c), and at one o'clock in the afternoon, as regards employ- ment for any purpose whatever (5) There shall be allowed for meals during the said period of employment in the factory— (a) on every day except Saturday not less than two hours, of which one hour at the least, either at the same time or at different times, shall be before three o’clock in the afternoon ; (b) on Saturday not less than half an hour ; (6) A woman or young person shall not be employed continuously (d) for more than four hours and a half without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal. In domestic factories the hours of employment are regulated by s. 111, post, p. 148. As to employment in 8-hour shifts, see Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act, 1920, s. 2, post, p. 297. (a) Definitions.—The expressions .““ woman” and ‘young person’ are defined by s. 156, post, p. 228, and “ textile factory ”’ by s. 149, post, p. 213. Print works and bleaching and dyeing works, though declared to be non-textile, have the same hours of employment as textile factories except that continuous work for five hours without a meal is permitted in them. See s. 28, post, p. 53. (b) Exeeptions.—The only exceptions to the above are: Continuous employment for five hours (s. 39, post, pp. 63, 64). Recovery of lost time in water-mills (s. 52, post, p. 80). Employment on Saturday and overtime in factories of Jewish occupiers (s. 47, post, p. 75). Employment of male young persons above sixteen in lace factories (s. 37, post, pp. 61, 62). Overtime employment of women on polishing, packing, etc., in warehouses (Sched. 2 (4), post, p. 240). (c) Manufacturing Process.—In Crabtree v. Commercial Spinning Mills Co., Limited (1910), 75 J. P. 6; 103 L. T. 879, a spinning machine was being cleaned by the women in charge of it, after the
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